At the December meetup we did a few puzzles from
http://adventofcode.com/ It's now day 14 of 25 - so you can still play! Discuss it on this thread!
Here's the first part of puzzle 1. The group came up with a simple one liner in Clojure.. What's yours?
;;;;; ADVENT OF CODE
adventofcode.com;; --- Day 1: Not Quite Lisp ---
;; Santa was hoping for a white Christmas, but his weather machine's
;; "snow" function is powered by stars, and he's fresh out! To save
;; Christmas, he needs you to collect fifty stars by December 25th.
;; Collect stars by helping Santa solve puzzles. Two puzzles will be
;; made available on each day in the advent calendar; the second
;; puzzle is unlocked when you complete the first. Each puzzle grants
;; one star. Good luck!
;; Here's an easy puzzle to warm you up.
;; Santa is trying to deliver presents in a large apartment building,
;; but he can't find the right floor - the directions he got are a
;; little confusing. He starts on the ground floor (floor 0) and then
;; follows the instructions one character at a time.
;; An opening parenthesis, (, means he should go up one floor, and a
;; closing parenthesis, ), means he should go down one floor.
;; The apartment building is very tall, and the basement is very deep;
;; he will never find the top or bottom floors.
;; For example:
;; (()) and ()() both result in floor 0. ((( and (()(()( both
;; result in floor 3. ))((((( also results in floor 3. ()) and ))(
;; both result in floor -1 (the first basement level). ))) and
;; )())()) both result in floor -3.
;; To what floor do the instructions take Santa?
;; Puzzle 1 Data
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;;1.1 To what floor do the instructions take Santa?